U.S. authorities are still investigating whether the Thursday attack on a military recruiting center and a Navy support center is an act of domestic terrorism, but jihadist sympathizers on Twitter wasted little time declaring it one.

CEP Condemns Extremist Murder of Four Marines at Reserve Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee

The Counter Extremism Project condemed the brutal act of domestic terror that claimed the lives of four brave U.S. Marines and wounded three at a Navy and Marine Corps Reserve Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

When a lone terrorist slaughtered 38 tourists at a Tunisian resort on June 26, the Islamic State turned to one of America’s leading social-media companies to claim responsibility and warn of more attacks on the world’s nonbelievers.

While the world is transfixed on ISIS, its scrutiny dangerously overlooks Iraq’s Shiite militias. The popular mobilization forces (PMF)—a collection of Shiite, Iranian-backed militias—liberated Tikrit in April and are providing the muscle in today’s...

The Obama administration is sending mixed messages over Twitter's emerging terrorism problem — how to deal with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and other extremist groups that use the social media giant's open platform to incite violence and...

ISIS in Iraq and Syria: Bloodied but Unbowed

At the dawn of the US-led campaign against ISIS in September 2014, President Obama announced the formation of a “broad coalition” whose mission was to “degrade and ultimately destroy” ISIS. Since then, the international coalition has carried out more...

CEP Releases New Resources on Iraq’s Extremist Shiite Militias

As the Iraqi army suffers setbacks in its battle against ISIS, Shiite militias, anti-American and anti-Sunni, have become a key element in Iraq's military strategy. CEP profiles three of the most powerful Shiite militias, the Badr Organization, Asaib...

Those keeping a close watch on jihadist threats and recruiting on social media sites say Twitter is largely ignoring calls to block tweets from Islamic extremists, and note that the famous social networking company has done little to stop accelerated...

"Islamic State" [IS] activists are "weaponizing Twitter; they're weaponizing social media," warns Ambassador Mark Wallace, one of the founders of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), which launched in the US in September and is now expanding its...

Mark Wallace, president of the anti-extremism organization CEP, said that more than 40 thousand supporters of the extremist organization Daash are present on the social networking site Twitter.